Crossword clues for employer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
employer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prospective employer
▪ Smart appearance is important to most prospective employers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Gordon Brown also promised Labour would be good news for big employers ... like the nearby Rover plant in Cowley.
▪ The biggest employer got to be the county prison.
▪ Although we were the biggest employer in Britain, we had no serious employee-involvement policies.
▪ The biggest employer is the manufacturer of La-Z-Boy recliners.
▪ It became the biggest local employer, with a basic work-force of about 1,500, and numerous additional contractors constantly in demand.
▪ For more than a hundred years the federal government was the biggest employer in the District of Columbia.
▪ Away from the big employers most of the part-time farmers found employment with small rural businesses.
▪ One of the biggest employers in Gloucestershire has been taken over.
large
▪ Both government agencies and large employers encouraged immigration from the Commonwealth to meet labour shortages throughout the 1950s.
▪ At one point in 1993, Employee Staffing was the largest employer in Rhode Island.
▪ General Dynamics, five years ago the largest local industrial employer, is gone.
▪ But that possibility is faint, and the prospects of another large employer ever using the site are even more remote.
▪ The factories, the largest employers in their respective areas, are of vital importance to their local economies.
▪ Some large employers are also cutting jobs.
▪ Neill's was one of the largest employers of women and therefore one of the main targets of possible strike action.
local
▪ For example, it is taking steps to discover what local employers and businesses need and want from their employees.
▪ General Dynamics, five years ago the largest local industrial employer, is gone.
▪ It became the biggest local employer, with a basic work-force of about 1,500, and numerous additional contractors constantly in demand.
▪ You may have heard very positive things about a local employer.
▪ Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate.
▪ But many expatriates are working for themselves, or for local employers who make no employee pension provision.
▪ He has reached the top at a relatively early age and now leads the largest local industrial employer.
▪ Firefighters suspend ballot Britain's firefighters have suspended a ballot on strike action after pay talks with local authority employers.
major
▪ Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers.
▪ Federal, State, and local governments are major employers, accounting for 1 of every 3 budget analyst jobs.
▪ An annual scheme brings together major employers in the engineering industry and students from schools, or more usually, colleges.
▪ Boeing, the region's major private employer, closed its Seattle-area factories until Thursday.
▪ All of them are major employers.
▪ Every major employer in the area ensures that their workforces are trained to uniformly high standards.
▪ Because of the isolation nearly all the off-farm employment was rural, with the Forestry Commission being the major employer.
▪ Primary Production Agriculture, forestry, fishing and tourism are major employers in DRAs.
new
▪ Utah, in particular, needs all the new employers it can find.
▪ It hired a team of people with business experience to aggressively recruit new employers for work-based learning experiences.
▪ She'd had no idea that her new employer was waiting!
▪ Finding five new potential employers can often be extremely difficult.
▪ These old bodies could cost a new employer thousands in worker comp.
▪ On 17 September 1990 the respondent attended the key department together with his new employer.
▪ It can take months and years to lure new employers to a region.
potential
▪ How will you describe yourself to a potential employer?
▪ Finding five new potential employers can often be extremely difficult.
▪ The answers to these questions will have important consequences for anyone who is about to choose a career or a potential employer.
▪ They strengthen the ties between students and potential employers.
▪ One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers.
▪ The notebooks and the focused career exploration give stun dents a sense of accomplishment and something to show to potential employers.
▪ The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute.
▪ But what alternative is there if you are unknown to a potential employer?
previous
▪ It is necessary with every unemployment claim for previous employers to advise such information.
▪ My previous employer gave us four weeks of vacation after 10 years.
▪ Pensions may be received from two main sources: the state and previous employers.
▪ If you run down the character of your previous employer, you will run yourself down in the process.
▪ Abilities or aptitudes can be tested psychologically; experience can be validated by talking to peers or previous employers.
▪ The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.
▪ My previous employers were keen on understatement rather than fireworks.
▪ New employees normally produce a P45 on which their national insurance numbers will have been entered by their previous employers.
private
▪ Staff training and development for private sector employers.
▪ J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
▪ There is also substantial private investment by employers in training for their staff which the Government encourage through the manpower training scheme.
▪ The Supreme Court pointed out that its decision has no effect on drug testing by private employers.
▪ Mr. Bowis A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers.
▪ Some private employers, including hotels and news organizations, have the opposite problem.
▪ In the main, they will be private sector employers operating in a free market and looking to secure an edge over their competitors.
▪ The city and some private employers also extend medical benefits to gay employees' partners.
prospective
▪ Some prospective employers were more concerned with my nursery arrangements than with my qualifications.
▪ Writing a resume of your achievements that will make a prospective employer want to meet you requires practice.
▪ It is important to be able to prove to prospective employers that you have the relevant experience for the job.
▪ This tells your prospective employer that you are very positive and that you know where you are going.
▪ It is a good idea to take along a number of copies of your c.v. which you can leave with prospective employers.
▪ Each of these had a specific meaning for prospective employers.
▪ After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius, Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers.
▪ To protect yourself, experts recommend you ask a prospective employer for a contract.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Fortunately, the government is generous and allows employers various ways to reduce tax and national insurance payments.
▪ It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
▪ In the standard form the contractor must pay to or allow the employer the liquidated damages.
▪ Current federal law allows employers to sponsor up to 140, 000 immigrants each year for specific jobs.
▪ Job Centres allow employers to put age limits in the vacancies they display and the Government will not stop this practice.
▪ Democrats contend it would undermine unions by allowing employers, rather than employees, to select workers to include in talks.
▪ It will also allow employers to take steps to safeguard jobs and businesses.
hire
▪ A more simple option would be a cash subsidy to employers who hired the long-term unemployed.
▪ This is because the older workers' protected situation may make employers reluctant to hire them.
▪ Despite that perception, 69 percent of employers say they are hiring just as many teens as they did 10 years ago.
▪ For example, in one case, an employer refused to hire a visually impaired applicant for the position of research analyst.
▪ About 36 percent of employers plan to boost hiring the rest of this year.
▪ Apply slightly tougher standards for employers who hire temporary foreign workers for specialty jobs in the high-tech industry and elsewhere.
pay
▪ If the government puts a tax on employers for every worker they employ, who pays - the employers?
▪ These taxes are paid by both employers and employees.
▪ The prescribed element is, in effect, frozen for the time being and should not be paid by the employer.
▪ Contributions are earnings related, paid by both employer and employees, as are the pension payments.
▪ The government, like any employer, would pay the employer share of their premiums into the alliances.
▪ Non-Contributory/Partial Contributory Schemes Where the premium is paid wholly or partly by the employer benefits should be paid directly to the employer.
▪ Benefits paid by employers are declining, while copayments and deductibles are increasing.
provide
▪ It is therefore very important that schools provide a forum for employers to express and explain their concerns.
▪ It provided employers with a cheap labour force.
▪ Where this is provided by employers it is important for the costs to be properly recognised and funded.
require
▪ The defence requires employers to identify the essential functions of the job.
▪ The 1-page standard would require employers to provide special training to injured workers and others handling the same duties.
▪ The police were not competent to enforce the civil provisions, which required that employers should do so.
▪ These require employers to assess users' workstations to ensure they meet certain standards.
▪ One of its powers is to make recommendations requiring an employer to recognize a particular trade union as a negotiating body.
▪ The other is dominated by workers with few skills, other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers.
▪ The inspector is required to give the employer the same information as he gives to the employed person.
▪ The course will develop a range of competences required by employers, together with the skills of versatility, adaptability and organisation.
work
▪ This means the agency is paid by, and in effect is working for, the employer.
▪ Support teams work with employers and fellow workers in a training programme and are also on call if there are problems.
▪ One reason Siemens promotes school-to-#work so actively among employers nationwide is to prevent other businesses from stealing its graduates.
▪ You work for your employer, the local authority.
▪ If both parents in a family work, both employers would share the cost of the family premium.
▪ It may be that you do homeworking as a self-employment, freelance or consultancy option, or working for an employer.
▪ Uneven Commitment Level Companies often discover that the capacity and interest of individual schools to work with employers differ.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She applied to her employer for a redundancy payment, but she was refused.
▪ We will need a reference from your last employer before we can send you a contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Customer satisfaction, as measured by parent and employer surveys, has improved.
▪ For example, it is taking steps to discover what local employers and businesses need and want from their employees.
▪ He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer.
▪ In practice, 70 percent of employers pay their workers less than the legal minimum wage, according to Mr Masduki.
▪ Most had never received visits from employers with job openings for high school graduates.
▪ Subjecting applicants or employees to medical examinations is not the only means that employers have used to screen out disabled employees.
▪ The plaintiff window cleaner was instructed by his employers in the sill method of cleaning windows.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Employer
Employer \Em*ploy"er\, n. One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
employer
1590s, agent noun from employ.
Wiktionary
employer
n. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
WordNet
employer
n. a person or firm that employs workers [ant: employee]
Usage examples of "employer".
At a meeting with Ambassador Abdrahaman, Adams and Jefferson were told that peace with Tripoli would cost 30,000 guineas for his employers, as His Excellency put it, plus 3,000 pounds sterling for himself.
Strictly between ourselves, the said revered employer is an annointed fraud.
Yes, Argus would want her to worry about what he might have shared with her employer.
The single fifty-watt bulb had no doubt been imposed by her employers for the same reasons of economy that had preserved the integrity of the whole space, but the gentle ingratiation of its dim glow, reflected back up off the worn flagstones, was beyond price.
CHAPTER SEVEN Colonel Baraka discovered the real employer of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollar incidentals-two, With a capital European T, on a night that gave him more horror than he had ever felt hi his four years as president of Lobynia.
Woolf, father of Sarah Woolf, owner of dinky Georgian house in Lyall Street, Belgravia, employer of blind and vindictive interior designers, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaine Parker.
Wal-Mart remains the biggest employer in town by far, with its headquarters located on a road named for its founder, Sam Walton Boulevard.
In the 1920s, its biggest employer at the time, the Mersman Brothers Corp.
The breaker boys were to go that morning, in a body, to the mansion of their dead employer to look for the last time on his face.
It was, indeed, a task for those three unlearned boys to express in writing, their grief consequent upon the death of their employer, and their sympathy for his living loved ones, but they performed it.
These were the only mixed brands that came in on the delivery, and after they had been culled down and accepted, my employer appointed Aaron Scales as clerk.
He had to think carefully about his employer, the big man behind the Cajun who gave orders and expected prompt results.
As we rode the short distance between the two herds and I mentally reviewed the situation, I could not help but think it was fortunate for the alien outfit that their employer was a Northern cowman instead of a Texan.
October of 1894 Daniel McCone, the founder and owner of the Cuyahoga Bridge and Iron Company, then the largest single employer in Cleveland, Ohio, informed his factory workers through their foremen that they were to accept a 10 percent cut in pay.
Daniel McCone was a brilliant and brutal Scottish engineer and metallurgist, who founded the Cuyahoga Bridge and Iron Company, the largest single employer in Cleveland when I was born.